There's a certain beauty in what I've decided to change my legal name to. My wife helped me figure it out.
Whether it was the friendship between families or the time, my mom and dad ended up being assigned both masculine and feminine names at birth.
As I change, I decided to honor them by doing the same thing -- as before both my names were masculine.
(My dad's name is Ricky Lynn, my mom's was Dawn Keith.)
The name I grew up with was Stuart Adam. I was named after my Papaw and named after the Biblical "first man". (Being my mom's first and only child, a son.)
I've elected to keep my Papaw's name but move it in the secondary spot. So now my name is gonna be Tamitha Stuart.
What tickles me so much is any paperwork I've signed "Stuart ___" will technically still be valid. Stuart will still be a legal part of my name.
